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you can’t ask the president about things he clearly does not have the power to do, because he is physically incapable of admitting he is not allowed to do something
Reporter: You said that you might denaturalize American citizens?
Trump: If we have criminals that came in and were naturalized through Biden or somebody that didn’t’ know what they were doing—if I have the power to do it… I would denaturalize
Trump: If we have criminals that came in and were naturalized through Biden or somebody that didn’t’ know what they were doing—if I have the power to do it… I would denaturalize
December 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
you can’t ask the president about things he clearly does not have the power to do, because he is physically incapable of admitting he is not allowed to do something
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the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and the tech bro is shaking a finger at me and twitching so hard he can't even plug what's happening into the machine so it can tell him how to respond
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and the tech bro is shaking a finger at me and twitching so hard he can't even plug what's happening into the machine so it can tell him how to respond
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listen up fucko. liquidate everything. stocks, bonds, car title, house title. transfer at least 80% of the nut into boost mobile prepaid cards. buy a 2015-2019 netbook. install three copies of linux mint. install debian and boot from that. book a flight to indonesia. get the fuck back on ventrilo
August 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
listen up fucko. liquidate everything. stocks, bonds, car title, house title. transfer at least 80% of the nut into boost mobile prepaid cards. buy a 2015-2019 netbook. install three copies of linux mint. install debian and boot from that. book a flight to indonesia. get the fuck back on ventrilo
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Exactly 80 years ago tomorrow (Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth should be very worried. www.executedtoday.com/2009/11/30/1...
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Exactly 80 years ago tomorrow (Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth should be very worried. www.executedtoday.com/2009/11/30/1...
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girl what in the fuck is this
November 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
girl what in the fuck is this
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EVERY house we looked at in altadena had a high fire risk, so we looked and bought in Pasadena even though there was less inventory. EVERY house i looked at in Altadena burned in Eaton, four weeks after we closed. Eaton missed our house by five blocks.
the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.
the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
EVERY house we looked at in altadena had a high fire risk, so we looked and bought in Pasadena even though there was less inventory. EVERY house i looked at in Altadena burned in Eaton, four weeks after we closed. Eaton missed our house by five blocks.
the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.
the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.
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One thing I learned over the weekend from talking to finance people is that they assume the AI bubble is going to burst and their issue is figuring out when so they can time their trades right.
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
One thing I learned over the weekend from talking to finance people is that they assume the AI bubble is going to burst and their issue is figuring out when so they can time their trades right.
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Man, I do not think this is going to go the way they think it’s going to go.
Yeah, the "dynamic pricing" in big box stores is the same. Depending on who is looking at the tag, time of day, etc. the price for items can literally change from the shelf to the register. 😤 Freaking DISNEY is even going to start using it! deadline.com/2025/11/disn...
Disney Will Bring Dynamic Pricing Similar To Airline Model To Domestic Theme Parks, Says CFO
Disney will bring dynamic pricing similar to the model used by airlines to its domestic theme parks as the company looks to boost incremental revenue.
deadline.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Man, I do not think this is going to go the way they think it’s going to go.
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as a trans TA, this story makes my blood boil so much. if some conservative claims my grades are discriminating against them, i get to go fuck myself. and any of the trans TAs under me can doubly go fuck themselves
bigoted students will be cashing in on this bullshit as long as schools allow.
bigoted students will be cashing in on this bullshit as long as schools allow.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
as a trans TA, this story makes my blood boil so much. if some conservative claims my grades are discriminating against them, i get to go fuck myself. and any of the trans TAs under me can doubly go fuck themselves
bigoted students will be cashing in on this bullshit as long as schools allow.
bigoted students will be cashing in on this bullshit as long as schools allow.
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"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
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we were driving around and my wife said ‘this looks like a place you could get a Chipotle’ and i laughed so hard because damn if that doesn’t summarize the basic urban geography of America in a nutshell
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
we were driving around and my wife said ‘this looks like a place you could get a Chipotle’ and i laughed so hard because damn if that doesn’t summarize the basic urban geography of America in a nutshell
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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Sci fi directors: stop making clean, polished space ships. This shit should look like you WILL accidentally catch and yank some important cords at least a few times every day.
August 13, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Sci fi directors: stop making clean, polished space ships. This shit should look like you WILL accidentally catch and yank some important cords at least a few times every day.
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"YOU CANNOT COOK A DISH SO GOOD IT FORCES DINERS TO HAVE GOOD TABLE MANNERS"
is such a nice way to express "You cannot fix social problems with techological solutions", communicated in such a fluent way.
This is such a good post, I wanted to share it with you.
is such a nice way to express "You cannot fix social problems with techological solutions", communicated in such a fluent way.
This is such a good post, I wanted to share it with you.
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"YOU CANNOT COOK A DISH SO GOOD IT FORCES DINERS TO HAVE GOOD TABLE MANNERS"
is such a nice way to express "You cannot fix social problems with techological solutions", communicated in such a fluent way.
This is such a good post, I wanted to share it with you.
is such a nice way to express "You cannot fix social problems with techological solutions", communicated in such a fluent way.
This is such a good post, I wanted to share it with you.
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Very interesting read for game designers.
Incentivising ethical behavior in games reduces ethical player decisions into only optimal decisions in which ethical consideration was not involved by the player, disconnecting them from the ethical component.
Incentivising ethical behavior in games reduces ethical player decisions into only optimal decisions in which ethical consideration was not involved by the player, disconnecting them from the ethical component.
(Don't) Incentivise Ethical Behaviour
In the ongoing project of rescuing useful thoughts off Xwitter, here's another hot take of mine, reheated:
"Being good for a reward isn’t being good---it’s just optimal play."
The quote comes from...
slowlorispress.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Very interesting read for game designers.
Incentivising ethical behavior in games reduces ethical player decisions into only optimal decisions in which ethical consideration was not involved by the player, disconnecting them from the ethical component.
Incentivising ethical behavior in games reduces ethical player decisions into only optimal decisions in which ethical consideration was not involved by the player, disconnecting them from the ethical component.
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out photographing one of the dolls in the woods near me. feels like a stealth mission to find quiet spots to set up, pose, photo, and pack up again before some other people stroll by and see a weird trans woman playing with a doll in the woods. cute outcomes so far tho. will post more when home
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
out photographing one of the dolls in the woods near me. feels like a stealth mission to find quiet spots to set up, pose, photo, and pack up again before some other people stroll by and see a weird trans woman playing with a doll in the woods. cute outcomes so far tho. will post more when home
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It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!
November 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!
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No.
I promise you a (surprisingly) few hours w/a decent search engine will get you much more useful info on building nuclear weapons.
FURTHERMORE!
The basic principles are well understood & published.
ChatGPT isn’t gonna be able to tell me measurements much less be able to crap out some HEU.
I promise you a (surprisingly) few hours w/a decent search engine will get you much more useful info on building nuclear weapons.
FURTHERMORE!
The basic principles are well understood & published.
ChatGPT isn’t gonna be able to tell me measurements much less be able to crap out some HEU.
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
No.
I promise you a (surprisingly) few hours w/a decent search engine will get you much more useful info on building nuclear weapons.
FURTHERMORE!
The basic principles are well understood & published.
ChatGPT isn’t gonna be able to tell me measurements much less be able to crap out some HEU.
I promise you a (surprisingly) few hours w/a decent search engine will get you much more useful info on building nuclear weapons.
FURTHERMORE!
The basic principles are well understood & published.
ChatGPT isn’t gonna be able to tell me measurements much less be able to crap out some HEU.
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Everytime i see new ads for the upcoming avatar movie, im thibking about this
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Everytime i see new ads for the upcoming avatar movie, im thibking about this
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If you are using the "NVidia App", I suggest promptly going in to the settings, looking under "Notifications" and turning off "Available Rewards". If you do not do this, it apparently now uses the Windows notification system to show you fucking ads (for random video games)
November 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If you are using the "NVidia App", I suggest promptly going in to the settings, looking under "Notifications" and turning off "Available Rewards". If you do not do this, it apparently now uses the Windows notification system to show you fucking ads (for random video games)
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"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.
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James Cameron stayed at the hotel I worked at in OKC a few times a year because his wife is from the city and he was a gigantic prick every single time. Treated all the workers like shit, never tipped, etc.
I am of the opinion that how a person treats service workers tells you who they really are.
I am of the opinion that how a person treats service workers tells you who they really are.
icymi- james cameron lurves elon musk apparently www.theringer.com/podcasts/the...
Part 1: James Cameron on ‘Avatar’ Misconceptions, AI’s Skynet Moment, and His Elon Musk Friendship - The Ringer
James Cameron joins for a wide-ranging conversation on the filmmaking of the ‘Avatar’ franchise, how it landed at Fox/Disney, motion-capture technology, the cost of CGI, the threat of AI, ...
www.theringer.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
James Cameron stayed at the hotel I worked at in OKC a few times a year because his wife is from the city and he was a gigantic prick every single time. Treated all the workers like shit, never tipped, etc.
I am of the opinion that how a person treats service workers tells you who they really are.
I am of the opinion that how a person treats service workers tells you who they really are.
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In sociology, a recurring methodological problem encountered by those trying to study the very rich is that their domains of existence are so far removed from the experiences of ordinary people that the researchers, before they even start, have to fundamentally reshape their social ontologies
When we talk about "taxing rich people" there's folks who think we're talking about Aunt Edna who has the second summer home. The astronomical levels of "rich" that now exist are almost unfathomable to people. It's the stuff of vast empirical dynasties. We're talking about taxing emperors.
The ultra-wealthy will often take whole fleets of cars with them when they travel, loading vehicles, along with motorbikes and other toys, onto chartered cargo aircraft that follow their private jets.
This is how they do it: cnn.it/3X8V14a
This is how they do it: cnn.it/3X8V14a
June 5, 2024 at 5:58 PM
In sociology, a recurring methodological problem encountered by those trying to study the very rich is that their domains of existence are so far removed from the experiences of ordinary people that the researchers, before they even start, have to fundamentally reshape their social ontologies